Small Business Networks

A virtualized data center is a more nimble, responsive, and efficient data center. This report discusses the trend towards x86 virtualization and customer benefits, and examines how (in defiance of conventional wisdom) SMB customers have been embracing – and benefiting from – x86 virtualization at about the same rate as larger enterprises.

This white paper examines how small and medium sized business can grow their businesses by streamlining their processes, creating employee empowerment, reducing IT costs, increasing productivity and improving their customers experience by implementing an integrated, real-time software solution. 

After maxing out on Quickbooks, Gunther Gifts needed a software solution that could support their growth and enable complete integration across inventory, accounting, purchasing and sales. Download this paper to read about their results.

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) continue to fuel demand for customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and more software firms are stepping up to offer appropriate technologies. SMBs, defined as companies with 1,000 or fewer employees, are searching for CRM solutions that will allow them to satisfy customers, control costs, and comply with various government regulations. But when choosing CRM software, it’s important to keep in mind that the needs of small and medium businesses aren’t always the same.

In a 2006 survey conducted by CRMGuru, 50% of the respondents indicate that they base their satisfaction with a company on the sum of "interactions with a brand's products, services, and people." How does your company measure up? You have an excellent product, your customer service department is highly responsive, and your personnel have received extensive training.

With the growing array of hardware, software, and systems necessary to support businesses, today more than ever, software-as-a-service or on-demand solutions offer feature-rich, real-time functionality without the burden associated with deploying, managing and supporting an in-house approach.  See if it’s right for you.

What are the key selection criteria to consider when your small or medium-sized business is evaluating VoIP?

To successfully adopt managed IT services to meet your business objectives, small- and medium-sized organizations (SMBs) should follow five straightforward steps.

If your company uses a contact management or customer relationship management (CRM system), you need to ask one additional key question. Does your CRM or contact management system tie your consultative sales, ROI analysis and proposal production process together?

This GigaOM Pro paper reviews the metrics and the technologies you should consider when migrating to the private cloud. Get your complimentary 10-page report now.

This paper outlines the compelling benefits of consolidating networking services, and details why competing efforts pursued by F5 technology come up short for critical ADC consolidation projects.

For small and midsize businesses, the new VMware vSphere 4.1 delivers higher efficiency, greater agility and more freedom of choice than ever before, making it easier than ever to optimize existing assets and get always-on IT with comprehensive, cost-effective backup and recovery.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

Learn what server virtualization is, how to determine if it can help your business, and how to choose the best solution for your specific needs.

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

This white paper briefly overviews a functionality of enterprise-level IM systems and describes new features and tasks that can be important to corporate and business users.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

In this insightful analysis, you'll discover how the best VoIP provider can help your small business save money, become more agile, and even look larger.

This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications.

Choosing an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor can be a daunting task, especially for the price conscious consumer who lacks the budget for intensive research. This white paper will arm SMBs with the right questions to ask when evaluating on-demand or hosted CRM vendors.

See why IBM BladeCenter S chassis is the right choice for independent businesses that need a powerful, yet simple IT. The white papers inside this informative eKit will show you how this system is easy to deploy, easy to use, and easy to manage; and how its modular technology helps avoid a cable mess in your office space.

IBM is committed to helping companies of all sizes stay competitive and grow. The IBM Express Advantage program, supported by a vast network of local IBM Business Partners, makes it simple to get exactly what you need from IBM. Download and browse the IBM Express Advantage catalog that’s full of useful offerings designed and priced especially for mid-sized companies.

As total costs of small and mid-sized businesses increase, growing companies look ever closely at how their IT needs affect energy costs. The IBM case studies and survey results herein discuss opportunities to reduce IT energy costs, save money and devise IT investment strategies. Read them and learn how you can expand your business while helping the environment.

No matter the size of the business, technology plays a critical role in its financial success. At the most basic level, companies have to deal with desktop and laptop computers for all their employees, e-mail, access to the Internet, Blackberries, and other kinds of on-site and remote devices. Add networking issues like viruses, spam and bandwidth utilization, and suddenly, this effort becomes a major challenge to anyone operating a small or mid-sized business (SMBs) with limited resources and a limited budget.